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Hi,
I've been reading Hyades documentation and future plans (beyond 3.0) and
I miss one thing on performance evaluation: a framework for
analytical analysis.
As I could see, Hyades has it's strengths in test automation and
application profiling,
but doesn't have anything about modeling an application (or it's
components) in
a way that provides you a model that can be used to evaluate (or
even predict) application's
performance analytically, but only thru measurement and/or simulation.
It'll be nice if this new project could provide a standard way to
model such analytical models
(Queue Network, Petri Network, etc.). Doing so you could provide a
tool that could be used
not for testing and profiling, but also to do capacity planning and
sizing of applications.
Another nice feature having such a tool is that those analytical
models could benefit from
information gathered when profiling the application, as
identification of resources
utilization (CPU, memory, I/O), etc. making the models more accurate
-- and easier to be
maintained.